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Fireflies.ai: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Fireflies.ai is an AI assistant that records, transcribes, summarises and makes meetings searchable. Teams ask questions about past conversations, track action items and connect the results to CRM, project and communication tools. The service works through a bot that joins calls, a web app, a Chrome extension, desktop and mobile apps, an API and an MCP server. Fireflies.ai is delivered as a hosted service and is proprietary software, not open source.

Fireflies.ai Corp. is a US company; its privacy policy says it is based in the United States. Data is stored on servers in the US and other countries, with no committed region. The data processing agreement states that data from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland is processed in the United States, relying on the Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses. According to the vendor, the service is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant, and customer data is not used for AI training. A European organisation using it is subject to US jurisdiction and should review the sub-processor list.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
AI Cowork
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Fireflies.ai

The European alternatives to Fireflies.ai come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Fireflies.ai

Fireflies.ai is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Fireflies.ai hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Fireflies.ai is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Fireflies.ai together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Fireflies.ai?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Fireflies.ai include Sally, Noota and Leexi. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Fireflies.ai?

Our list of EU alternatives to Fireflies.ai is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Fireflies.ai GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Fireflies.ai is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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